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14 Jan 2007, 9:00 pm
Kevin Jon Heller writes, John Bellinger, the head of the Office of the Legal Adviser at the State Department, will be guest-blogging at Opinio Juris the week of January 15th (Monday to Friday). [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 2:34 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller What’s worse than giving cookies, gold stars and smiley faces to a murderous tyrant? [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 12:12 am by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller A simple question for those who believe “self-defense” and/or the AUMF authorizes the CIA to kill Americans abroad outside of armed conflict. [read post]
21 Mar 2008, 6:13 am
Thanks to our Opinio Juris colleague, Kevin Jon Heller, for alerting us to the 50th birthday this Good Friday of the peace symbol. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 10:00 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Thanks to the independence of two independents — Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, who come from conservative electorates. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 3:33 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Don’t worry, I will not be linking to any and all reviews of my book. [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 7:14 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration recently filed its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit that seeks to enjoin the government from using lethal force against Anwar al-Aulaqi. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 4:59 am by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Tonight’s episode of The Good Wife featured a Muslim-American man — a former Army translator in Afghanistan — who sues the U.S. government for torture and ends up being accused of supporting al-Qaeda. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 3:38 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr accepted a plea deal yesterday that called for him to plead guilty to all of the charges against him in exchange for serving one more year at Gitmo and then being repatriated to Canada to serve another seven years in prison. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 5:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t have any deeper insight into the situation than Ken, but there certainly has been pressure on the Prosecutor to investigate Afghanistan for some time — both because it’s not in Africa and because of US/NATO involvement in the armed conflict there. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:43 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, conservatives and the Obama administration are falling all over themselves to praise Paul Clement for his brave willingness to represent the House of Representatives at the low, low rate of $520.00 per hour - practically pro bono. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 11:18 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller I am not going to respond in depth to Professor Cassel’s recent post on Chevron’s responsibility for the “rainforest Chernobyl” caused by its predecessor’s dumping of million gallons of crude oil and billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest. [read post]
6 May 2010, 8:49 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller As most people probably know, Duke’s Guy-Uriel Charles wrote a devastating blog post criticizing the lack of diversity in Harvard Law School hiring while Elena Kagan was Dean. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 8:09 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller The OTP is seeking an arrest warrant for Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, the Sudanese Defence Minister, in connection with a number of attacks on civilians in Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 3:24 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at Lawfare have been having a typically intelligent debate about the meaning of the Obama administration’s recent declaration that “The U.S. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 9:09 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein links today to an article in The Times — a right-wing British newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch — attacking Human Rights Watch. [read post]
24 May 2010, 5:58 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller So, Alan Dershowitz has decided that international law needs to be “delegitimized,” because it is unfair to Israel. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 4:01 am by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller As Roger has pointed out, the Ninth Circuit has just released a blockbuster ATS decision in the Rio Tinto case. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 2:11 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller Even when Moreno-Ocampo wins, he loses. [read post]
31 May 2011, 8:20 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller In honor of the US government’s decision to charge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men responsible for 9/11 with the non-existent war crime of conspiracy, I want to call readers’ attention to an excellent new article by Samuel Morison about the equally non-existent war crime of material support for terrorism. [read post]